Journal

Yeahh 🙂 Our co-created Tabletop Game has been just released as a Box Version and is now available for Schools for playful integration into Waste, Recycling and Circular Economy education. Official announcement, City of Kassel, Germany: https://www.kassel.de/pressemitteilungen/april/smartwasteagency.php Game Website in German:https://swa.futurespace.org/ English Website and Materials:https://www.the-swag.eu/

420 AI physical card background image generations in an Agroecology course for young people? How does that fit together? “Watt”, if all educational comic illustrations were created on just one consumer graphic card on a self hosted open-source AI model? Running smoothly on 17 Watt energy consumption in idle work mode and a maximum of 435 […]

Soft Launch Announce before the more official/detailed post. Incredible grateful for the collaboration on our first public food system edu comic iteration 0.9, a low consumption Open-Source AI Image Generation App Development and pilots in 3 schools in Kenya. The Comic is freely available in print and screen formats for fun and educational settings to […]

Incredible speedup of production and a paradigm shift in creative, AI supported production thanks to ComfyUI . Instead of needing multiple subscriptions or running multiple server setups for open-source models, I just need this one, node based, modular and comfy workflow design UI. I can simply choose the models I need for a specific task […]

Belated New Year Letter and fast growing updates January, 22nd 02026, written by by André Boeing Ibrahim’s upcoming Session, Beginning the new year at the Oxford Real Farming Conference as an inter-continental team, simultaneously kick starting and interconnecting fast approaching school projects in Kenya, Nigeria and Germany, Re-Designs and a transit to self hosted low […]

TJD Conference for Africa Authentic Sustainability: African Actions Shaping Sustainable Futures We are happy to speak and play on Day 1 of the Conference, as its theme sings along our shared passion for connecting arts, sciences, and storytelling to shape joyful and satisfying futures. We are so much looking forward to listen to and learn […]

Free Ktopia Climate Fiction eBook & Audio Shortstory “A Morning in Tomorrow” Join us for a morning stroll through a Smart Edible City — a city that lives as a regenerative food system. A living lab where people celebrate the sacredness of growing and cooking ingredients. Here in Ktopia, everyone follows their unique abilities and […]

Mission Accomplished! Our First Card Design Playshop Was a Joyful Success! October 17th, 2025 Our first Collectible Card Design Playshop in a Small Group Pilot during European Code Week has been awesome. The Glorious Seven—young card designers aged 10–19—created and produced their own print cards using open digital tools.Planning with pen and paper, sketching by […]

A Regenerative Food Systems Trade Card Game Grows from a CoFSA Collaboration Across Countries and Continents How can we make the daily, weekly, and monthly Practice of regenerating conscious food systems and the SDG’s as engaging as an adventure game, as joyful as an offline card game, and as inspiring as an epic narrative, while […]

European Codeweek 2025 : A Cross-Continental Trade Card Game Design Playshop for Youth During this year’s European Codeweek, we’ll facilitate a Trade Card Game (TCG) Design Playshop for young people aged 12+ in partnership with the Youth Development department, City of Hessisch-Lichtenau, Germany. Participants will learn to design their own trading cards using Krita, the […]

I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a new member of Catalyst Now. Catalyst Now is a dynamic global movement of social innovators transforming systems and driving sustainable change to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. We unite social innovators, social entrepreneurs, civic society, funders, private sector leaders, academia, and […]

Chyme Line Kitchen The Open-Source System Gastronomy Franchise We are an internationally operating brand with a long-term and success-proven System Gastronomy Method, that tastes great, nurtures planet and people well, and leaves Zero Waste. Our foldable 8-meter kitchen line with 4 stations  empowers our partners to serve the best meals available around the world. www.clinekitchen.org […]

Today we met Mary and Jude from the Busano Community Initiative, a school and community support project with an attached orphanage in Uganda, Kamuli District in the village of Nawanyago. We are very happy and grateful to announce a new project partnership for implementing and contextualizing our educational card games, The SWAG “Waste & Recycling” […]

The SWAG 1Y Anniversary Summer Edition launched – free card design templates, a Multiplayer Story and a course July 15th 2025 by André Boeing ☀️ Free Wastemonsters- and Recycling-Mod Card Templates (A6 standard postcard format) representing real waste types and recycling methods — plus free bonus graphics and a video tutorial course on how to […]

It is with great joy to announce our fresh ktopia project partnership with The Jena Declaration (TJD) at the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability. The principles of the Declaration resonate deeply with Ktopia values and approach to open, grassroots educational game world design intended to spark joy—joy in actively becoming involved in “The […]

🎯 Educational Potential of TCGs Trading Card Games (TCG) combine storytelling, collectibility, and strategic play in a way that captivates across generations and geographies. From bustling tournaments in Japan to local game nights in Nigeria, the TCG format is a proven catalyst for engagement. Its unique ability to connect analog experiences with digital platforms makes […]

Nigeria and the fsys Africa–Europe partnership deepens The collaboration deepend in the many meetings with my dear Conscious Food System Alliance fellow Ibrahim Gadzama in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria and me, located in the Kassel Region of Germany. Ibrahim brings the wisdom, knowledge, experience and passion of farmers to the circle. He carries a deep […]

Food System Collectible Card Game Development started May 23rd, 2025 A Collectible Trading Card Game for Education in Regenerative Food Systems International & urban-regional synchronous development of an Open Educational Resource (OER) and Game for the Creative Commons Open Development began on May 08th 2025Visit Project website for detailed information fsysgame.org

Walking up our UNESCO world heritage “Bergpark” under Hercules watchful, naked eyes. Walking towards our first Innovation Circle for the State Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, hosted at the Forest School Kassel – a space dedicated to Education since 1926, surrounded by a forest, much, much older. Entering an agile development sprint, a temporal […]

Grateful and excited to be part of a 6-month agile innovation journey, initiated by the Hessian Ministry for Agriculture and the Environment, Germany. Starting next week at the Forest School in Kassel, I’ll join a small group of selected innovators to co-create impactful solutions with a special focus on regenerative food systems. In just two […]

The Smart Waste Agency Game (The SWAG) has reached its impact goal! April 30th 2025 – André Boeing Educators from diverse backgrounds have started using our narrative approach to explore the themes of waste, recycling, and the Great Circular. Because we developed the game under a Creative Commons license, it’s now being remixed and adapted […]

Epic Education adopts The SWAG. Community for educational Multipliers in Beta Narrative Education and educational Adventures activate Joy, Playfulness and deepen engagement among learners. The German non-profit .org Epic Education adopted our Creative Commons Game “The Smart Waste Agency” in March 2025 To support our educational products of Pen & Paper and Live Action Roleplaying […]

ktopia joins Conscious Food Systems Alliance CoFSA convened by UNDP March, 6th 2025 – written by André Boeing It is with great joy and gratitude that my Ktopia.eu André Boeing application with CoFSA has been reviewed, and I have been welcomed as a new member of the CoFSA Community. I look forward to contributing to […]

Playful Food System Expedition Quests, pragmatic k.limate Utopias and mindful Living Lab Ecotopes for growing joyful Optimisms. Here we have it! A wonderful, clunky sentence and essence of my self treated re-identity design retreat. As I compressed the vision and mission statement, as well as a tiny manifesto into that one clunky sentence, it’s pretty […]

As I researched the possibility space of Smart Waste and Youth Participation for my City Administration client exactly one year ago, I compared different countries and their waste management systems – from statistics to the mindsets and models behind. I also came across another helpful meme from Japan, known for it´s mindful, simple words describing […]

A cloud platform allowing for managing all incomes and expenses of a project. In full transparency (you can even download the csv and analyze). A fiscal host offering it’s non-profit legal structure to receive grants from institutions. There you have it. The SWAG, the Smart Waste Agency Game Product is now fiscally hosted and open […]

From epic fail to great success and the Europe 25 chapter posted January 19th 2025 by André Boeing Looking back into 2024, the back then January has been almost prophetic. “Wasteland – beginning at the end” is the title of my January 11th 2024 post. Before I simplified the complexity of food systems down to […]

May, 1st 2024 Smart Waste Agency A live-action roleplaying game to become involved in the great quest of making the waste system of our city-region smarter. Using a superhero/agent narrative, a gamified open-source online platform, local events and a board-and-card game design challenge, we empower and involve young people into our Smart City / Smart […]

The region around the city exploring the city<>region connection André Boeing – March, 14th 2024 In the region surrounding our city, nestled in a tiny forest village of around 700 inhabitants and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of trees, I found my focus for the past few weeks. The area is filled with trees, large […]

Gameboard Waste Quadrant for the food-system board- and cardgame Waste: the fourth quadrant in the base game board  – after the quadrants “cultivation”, “processing”,“cooking & eating” A quadrant so rich, it deserves an own Gameboard to explore the adventure of smart waste in a circular economy ecology. You can even place an augmented reality Earth […]

“Mottainai” – A significant factor in Japans effective smart waste management system André Boeing – Feb 7th, 2024 While comparing different countries and their waste management systems from statistics to the mindsets and models behind I came across another beautiful, helpful meme from Japan, known for it´s mindful, simple words describing not just a policy […]

Open SourceProduceserved for free dishes & recipes André “Cyberhippie” Boeing organic bites and digital bytes cuisine In the context of food systems, “produce” refers to fresh, unprocessed fruits and vegetables, as well as other plant- and fungi based foods. But here comes the narrative trickster. In conventional terms this page would be about open source […]

in DEutscher Sprache lesen Integrated Smart Food Hubs. Connecting Established Urban Food Movements, Smart City Agendas, and City-Region Food Producers From theory to a proposed small-scale experiment in a living lab by André Boeing  January 30th 2024 The concept of Smart Food Hubs emerges as a pivotal strategy for integrating and optimizing diverse elements of our […]

The first 15-day sprint and three magic tools for the eXPedition January 25th 2024 – André Boeing A magic journal to document the expedition in an artistic way and even spoken word. A Game Map to not get lost in the wide fields of the city region food systems. Magic Quest cards to keep the […]

Creative Card Crafting Crafting additional Cards for the food system board+card game is a fun process. It serves themed card Booster-Packs and Sets for specific purposes. KRITA Open-Source and Free Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. Download […]

Food Systemthe board & card game free and open-source game for 1-4 players Players explore four distinct and interconnected quadrants of “Food Systems” through Research & Action Quest cards. Players train practical skills in research, creativity, solution design, and presentation, while learning about interconnected food systems both in their region and around the world. Game […]

Theoretical overview and key findings from 18 research papers in the study of food systems André Boeing, January 15th 2024 The concept of food systems encompasses a broad spectrum of activities and contexts, ranging from basic production and processing to advanced integration into urban planning and smart city designs. This page provides a succinct overview […]

food system the board game André Boeing January 9th, 2024 8 minute read – you can listen to this page read by the author https://www.ktopia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/foodsystemboard-game-ktopia.mp3 Download MP3 Simplifying the complexity of food systems to 4 quadrants and designing an educational board game to learn about food systems. As a beginner in the wide fields of […]

waste land beginning at the end André Boeing – January 11th 2024 15 Minute read – You can also listen to this page as a podcast https://www.ktopia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/wasteland-ktopia.mp3 Download MP3 Making sense from public waste datasets with AI as a partner in citizen science curiosities As a citizen of the documenta City of Kassel, Germany and […]